Pre-Clinical Models in Gynecological Tumors A Tissue Repository

BACKGROUND AND RATIONALE

This protocol will create a central repository for banking tumor and other tissues as well as serum from patients with uterine corpus tumors. In addition, this protocol will also serve as a central repository for serum and tissue to healthy post-menopausal and peri-menopausal controls.

There will be an "internal" bank. The internal bank will have samples available to UNM investigators.

Inclusion criteria

• All patients undergoing hysterectomy, or who have endometrial cancer, and are under routine surveillance.
• Patients may have received prior hormonal, cytotoxic chemotherapy, irradiation or surgical therapy.
• Healthy post-menopausal and peri-menopausal women.
• A consent form must be signed by the patient prior to study entry.

Exclusion criteria

Study Patients:

• Patients who do not have primary uterine corpus tumors.
• Patients with less than one gram of tumor tissue available to procurement.

Controls:

• Patients unwilling to have their medical records reviewed for height, weight, and general medical history (see attached data sheets).